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Speed dial, private browsing, user agents

So Midori is going full speed ahead, we support the new libSoup cache now (WebKitGTK+ 1.3.11 or greater required) which supersedes the old extension, support for F6, F7 and Ctrl(+Shift)+Tab and Tab in completion and a faster speed dial, which is still in the middle of even greater improvements, so stay stuned for more goodness in the future.

Private browsing has received a number of improvements such as masking of the timezone, language, architecture and Netscape plugins, disabling of DNS prefetching, disabling all HTML5 storage facilities and stripping referrer details – the last one is also available as a preference in the Privacy options now, and prevents unrelated websites from seeing search strings or sub pages. You can use the –private switch on the command line now to open a window in private browsing mode.

Motivated by user agent changes of Firefox and Chrome, Midori takes the opportunity to omit the language and encryption from the user agent, and prefixes with Mozilla now in an attempt at increasing uniformity of user agents. It resolves typical issues such as Facebook and other websites mistaking Midori for a mobile phone browser or Google hiding interface tweaks (you know, the guys doing their best to ignore their own ideals).

36 thoughts on “Speed dial, private browsing, user agents”

Sounds like a WebKitGTK+ bug you’re encountering, middle click to open tabs is always enabled. I suggest you check https://bugs.launchpad.net/midori and https://bugs.webkit.org for existing bugs. I recall there’s one where middle click opens in the current and a second tab, this might be related but I don’t have the bug number handy.

Nice release! I just updated through the PPA on U 10.04. However, one thing concerns me, middle click no longer opens a link in a new tab for me. I can’t seem to find the setting for this. It’s driving me nuts, I am constantly opening new tabs, and its annoying to have to that extra click. Does anyone know how to change this?

I just updated Midori via the Ubuntu updater. I use Maverick 64 bit. I have used Midori for ages and like it but now when I try to start it all my ram and CPU is instantly used up. I cannot even kill the program and have to reboot the computer. I tried removing Midori and reinstalling but the same problem results. Any suggestions? I like Midori and would like to be able to use it. The speed dial stopped working some time ago but I do not use it anyway.

Yes, you have to right-click the link to save it.
That dialog that would offer to open the file doesn’t work anymore and also we can’t set it to ask for the directory to download.
Maybe the developers are working on this but you may want to add a bug report in the launchpad page (from the ‘report bug’ option in the menu).

Another issue with 0.3.5. There isn’t a buttom for view the last entered URL in the url-box. This buttom used to have a down arrow. I cleared my config files to see it all issues are from a bad configuration, but don’t .

Remove that PPA from your sources, then run
sudo apt-get build-dep midori
then cd to where you have your compiled apps (here I have them in ~/src), run
git clone git://git.xfce.org/apps/midori
cd midori/
./waf configure
./waf build
sudo ./waf install

Hi, I’m using Ubuntu Natty 11.04, I wanted to upgrade to latest version of midori, but I’m facing some problems with webkit ppa, it isn’t able to fetch packages from it, does anyone have the same problem?

I keep going back and forth between Midori and Chromium. Not sure which one I like better.

I would love to see ALT+d (highlight address bar) supported in Midori. I use that feature a _lot_ and Midori and Epiphany are the only browsers that don’t do it.

I set Midori to identify as Safari. That solves issues with bank and credit card websites refusing Midori as an “unknown user agent”. I wonder if it would help if all the webkit browsers identified simply as “webkit”? Chrome, chromium, safari, midori, epiphany all together have considerable marketshare.

Need a ‘Hide Speeddial’ or even bringing back the config option: speed-dial-in-new-tabs=false

I was told to ‘ignore it’ but hopefully disabling or hiding will comeback for those w/out the need for a speeddial as fancy as it may be. And yes speeddial does not work properly with images & js disabled, hence the need to disable/hide speeddial altogether.

All of that being said: The new 3.4/3.5 release is looking good and midori is stable for those who may have used it around the time of the ’1001 bug’ fix release give it a go and you will see for yourselves.
Thanks Midori Team!

When I open new panel (JavaScript off), I get a cripled Speed dial. In 0.3.3, when JS was off, I got blank screen. Now (with 5×3) I get Speed dial that has 3 thumbnails on a row, then 2 on a row, again 3, 2, 3, 2. Is there a way to fix this and use even without JS, or at least to get a blank screen again?